Should revenge porn be a crime?
While most people sympathize with the victims, some fear criminalizing this behavior will have dire consequences on constitutionally protected free speech.

The diversity of women bodies
Joe Schwab is a talented German photograph from Berlin, fascinated, as I am, by the diversity of women bodies and more than that, by their singular beauty although so varied [more]

Porn films leave young Frenchmen with complex
A study that looks into the impact of pornographic films on the sex lives and psyche of the French people has revealed that many young men have been left with a complex over the size of their penis and more

Sex therapists, surrogates, and escorts?
In her new book, An Intimate Life: Sex, love and my life as a surrogate partner, Cheryl Cohen Greene confronts a question many people ask: How are you different from a prostitute?

Top swingers states
In her new book, An Intimate Life: Sex, love and my life as a surrogate partner, According to the Kinsey Institute, about four million Americans are swingers, and is prevalent in various states including Arizona, California, Florida, New York and Texas.

Why women orgasm
Popular culture has an obsession with the female orgasm, but the question that's asked less often is: why do women have orgasms at all?

Watching porn with strangers
Who'd choose to sit and watch porn with a room full of strangers in this day and age? Quite a few people, it turns out, and I went to join them.

28 Apr 2014

The real life of a sex worker
I have been working in the sex industry for nine years. The vast majority of my clients have been good people who never caused me any harm, but I have had a few bad experiences.

Larger penises make women cheat
A new study has questioned the assumption that size is king, by finding a group of women were more likely to cheat on men with larger penises.

Chase Bank closes accounts of sex workers
Chase Bank sent hundreds of letters this week to account holders who work in the adult entertainment industry informing them that they have until May 11 to close their accounts and find another bank.

27 Apr 2014

The sexualisation of pop music
Rashida Jones made a seemingly innocuous dig at Cyrus, Rihanna, and other hypersexualized stars, declared an openness to sex but wariness of the "pornification of everything"

Facts about sperm counting
A sperm count, a component of the semen analysis, forms the cornerstone of evaluating male infertility.

Arrested teen had loaded gun in her vagina
A 19-year-old Tennessee girl cuffed earlier this week for allegedly driving with a suspended licence is in a spot more bother, after jail officers reportedly discovered a loaded .22 revolver in her vagina

Your penis is getting in the way of my science
When scientists announced they'd discovered a "female insect with a penis", it was wrong. The organ is in fact a gynosome that once inserted into the male, inflates grows spines, and then absorbs sperm.

Thrills and spills
Advice is given to a man, who after 45 years of marriage to the same woman, find that the sex has fallen off to zero.

22 Apr 2014

China censoring online porn
China has shut down more than 100 websites carrying pornography and closed thousands of accounts on social media sites in an re-newed effort to clean up the internet

An expert's guide to brothel etiquette
I've been having sex with the window girls of Amsterdam for a while now, so I thought I'd gift you my own informed guide to the etiquette of sleeping with a sex worker.

Does penis size matter?
Recent research on how penis size is related to women's attraction to men has received a lot of media attention lately, but this might not be a good thing

18 Apr 2014

Good Housekeeping test vibrators
A hundred Good Housekeeping readers, aged between 30 and 80, have tested a range of vibrators to find out if "they're hitting the spot"

How the world views sex
The Pew Research Centre's Global Views of Morality survey reveals the divergences between western and non-western social attitudes, as well as within regions [more]

Is Eco-sex the new sex fad?
When one of my patients mentions a sexual practice I've not heard of after 20 years of practice, I consider it a quirk. When three people mention the same practice in one week, I consider it a potential fad

What you must teach your son about sex
Talking about sex with your kids is difficult. In part, that's because so few of us had good conversations about sex with our parents so we don't know how to do it.

My boyfriend refuses to go
down on me
My boyfriend refuses to do anything "extra" when it comes to sex. He won't go down on me. He won't touch me down there. When we have sex, it's always what he wants

Why sex week events matter
The idea of holding Sex Week started within the Ivy League and has steadily increased its presence on college campuses across the country in recent years at both private and public universities.

The real reason people stray
My theory on affairs is that we'd all be far less tempted to have them if we adjusted our expectations of long-term sex and made them more realistic and achievable.

16 Apr 2014

Tom of Finland gets stamp of approval
The Finnish postal service's decision to use the artist's bold images on a new set of stamps will make philatelic history, but he's not the first gay hero to grace an envelope

Uni porn performer becomes media target
Belle Knox shows herself to be a teenager with more nuanced social concerns and a greater depth of human understanding than many of the more mature adults around her

15 Apr 2014

I loved naked yoga
Before I tried naked yoga, I thought it might be hipster nonsense. Instead it made nudity liberating and, yes, sexy

Feminist Porn: why it matters
The following is the text of the introduction I gave at the Feminist Porn: What It Is, What It Isn't and Why It Matters panel, one of the opening sessions of the 2014 Feminist Porn Conference in Toronto

14 Apr 2014

I'm turned on by BDSM
Although I am what is considered vanilla I find myself turned on by BDSM, and I connect well with the need to be submissive in the bedroom

What kind of porn turns on women?
A study suggests that while most women don't watch porn, those who do are not watching female-friendly porn, but rather the same mainstream, male-targeted, hardcore sites that men view.

5 Dead kings I'd like to shag
I mean, sometimes you just want to be with a real man (who is also the ex-King of England and has been dead for 466 years), you know?

How do I clean my Hitachi Magic Wand?
A general rule of thumb is never to clean any of your toys with anything you wouldn't put in your body, which means things like bleach and hand sanitizer are out.

Why is lesbian porn so uninspiring?
All the lesbians I asked about their porn preferences agreed that the genre known as lesbian porn, does not depict them, nor does it serve their needs as consumers of porn

How aging can improve your sex life
Joan Price, author of 'Naked At Our Age' joined HuffPost Live's Caroline Modarressy Tehrani to discuss how the gaining of years can actually enhance our sexuality.

7 Apr 2014

Faceook bans more non-nude photos
Facebook, the company that allowed the video of a women being beheaded, has banned images from a nudist resport that shows no nudity.

I took my Tinder date to a peep show
I went on Tinder to see if someone would come with me to a peep show. At the last minute I met Karen, a fashion student from Montreal, who agreed to accompany me [more]

Chocolate Lesbians
I can't bear the humiliation of having to declare myself a lesbian at this age

The cum rag hierarchy
A few months ago, I made a 100-point boyfriend checklist, and while some of the qualities listed were a little tongue in cheek, I was dead serious about wanting to find a man who would wipe his cum off me with a warm, wet washcloth.

A threesome with two opposite-sex partners?
There is very little research that asks people how interested in or experienced with group sex in general they are, and even less research that asks about different types of group sex separately

A talk with a Bangkok sex customer
During a recent trip to Thailand, I decided I wanted to speak to a westerner who'd been in contact with this sex industry. I was curious why they might engage in activities here they wouldn't dream of doing at home.

How to talk to your teenager about pornography
Depending on how comfortable or miserable your teenager will feel when you bring up the topic of pornography, it might be a good idea to begin the conversation when you're close to home so your teenager can count on an imminent escape